Hello List,
I was starting to feel status quo and then the topic came up again. The
depressing thing is that it presents a sad reality.
According to linkedin Aaron Smith works for VFO in a role called
"enterprise Compliance." Not really sure what that is, but here is an
interesting definition...
deloitte.wsj.com/riskandcompliance/files/2013/07/EnterpriseCompliance.pdf f
Result details
Enterprise compliance is a coordinated approach to compliance
spanning multiple businesses, organizational units, and geographies,
enabled by people, processes, and technology.
You can surf for even more interesting/scary definitions, but the thing
I'm taking away is that VFO is looking out for their interests and
definitely doesn't care about us.
And I doubt they even care if we don't purchase Window-Eyes or jowls.
The thing that annoys me is that VFO probably won't develop one more
major upgrade for W-e which would give me an install disk for 9.5.4 and
beyond. Since this recent fix was not a major upgrade they will send a
disk for $20 probably or a link to the upgrade assuming you have an
alternate screen reader or sighted assistance to install it. I guess
you have to have an older disk, install it, then if it is earlier than
the certificate issue install 9.5.4 that you have save to a
(non-install) disk. fortunately I have W-E disks back to 7.5+-.
When I spoke with the VFO ?support? person she said she gets lots of
calls from W-e users. I'm guessing VFO is trying to figure out the best
way to deal with a large group of displaced users. I suspect that in
the narrow noncompetitive market they can do whatever they want and are
just trying to assess the risks.
I'm hoping that at C-sun people will be asking questions and that
answers will appear on various lists or maybe even an announcement from
VFO (not holding my breath). I'm hoping NVDA continues to improve for
my win7 machine. Perhaps for win10 narrator will be like voiceover is
to the mac. And since GW used to work with Microsoft, I wonder if the
MS accessibility folks will try to include W-e features - one can hope.
Brenda
Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2017 1:08 PM
To: Window-Eyes Discussion List <[email protected]>; Loy
<[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Where are the informed comentators?
Plans to cling to my current zt fusion and will refuse to upgrade. The zt
we combo works so well for me.
"the world has been against you from day one, tomorrow's never promised
night has just begun, so sing with me we're all fucked" Walls Of Jericho
Reeva
On Feb 23, 2017 1:53 PM, "Loy via Talk" <[email protected]> wrote:
I agree with a lot of what you are saying. I wonder if VFO even knows
what they are going to do with Window Eyes. I was told that the
current version of Fusion is powered by Window Eyes, but the next
release will be powered by JAWS. ZoomText 11, just released says it
works great with JAWS but no mention of WE. I asked support if ZT 11
would work with WE as well as ZT 10.1, the support person said
management had not told them. Then later I got an email that said it
should.
----- Original Message -----
From: Vaughan Dodd via Talk
To: Window-Eyes Discussion List
Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2017 2:07 PM
Subject: Where are the informed comentators?
Hi all.
List member comments regarding VFO support once again raise the question
as to the future of Window-Eyes. For those who do not like this thred -
hit delete "now."
But for me - the burning question for sometime has been the absence of
critical, informed insider comment. We are in need of an informed
adaptive technology press, which by way of blog posts, interviews with
leaders and knowledgeable opinion expression, shed light on what is
happening in this access technology market place.
I have not seen evidence of anyone running an in-depth interview with
the executives of VFO. Neither have I seen inciteful comment on VFO's
behaviours in areas such as customer relationships, product research and
development, and the appropriateness of private equity funding of access
technology.
Based solely on the evidence i've gleaned from personal observation and
the comments of fellow list members - VFO has no intention of
rejuvenating Window-eyes. If the intentions were different, the"other
software" option that people have referred to when talking about
telephone support would say "Window-Eyes. VFO has not contacted me as a
payed license holder to let me know of new offers and fancy tricks to
have me spend more money. FS Podcasts are for the purposes of FS -
not VFO.
Oh well: time to put on the armour against the flaming I might get.
Vaughan.
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